Trying to create a SVCD

[vipa2000]

What am I doing wrong. I have used Pinnacle DV500+ vers 4.0 to create an mpeg2 file (seperate video and audio files using the inbuilt SVCD profile). I have then used the muxing facility i.e selecting Tools then mixing tools from the cascading menus of TMPGEnc vers 2.5 ish (i was told to do this but I do not appear to be able to set any parameters). I then end up with one mpg file that plays on the computer. I then use the latest version of nero with the mpeg2 encoder add-in. The message appears The file ...... is invalid, need mpeg2 which was encoded for super video CD audio 44.1khz mpeg-1/2, layer 2;stereo/dual channel/multi channel video 480x480 at 29.97hz or 480x576 at 25hz

The following problems were found invalid video stream 25 frames/ second 720x576 pixels, invalid audio stream 48000hz 2 channels

You are creating a super video cd 1.0 compliant cd but the mpeg file is not suitable for such a disc how would youe like to proceed?

You then get the chance to re-encode and this is what Nero has told me to do and a number of threds. However when the disc is created it will not play back on a DVD player which is designed for SVCD or my computer which has power DVD installed.

I am sure it is different frame sizes/formats that is causing this. Help please.

[macleod]

will your DVD player play PAL??? You didn't fill out your profile, so I don't know if you are an NTSC (US and JAPAN) or a PAL (everywhere else).

From what I remember about nero (I'm not in front of my home computer), you can only do NTSC.

The other likely thing is that the resolution size won't fly with nero (you source file is DVD resolution, however, the SVCD template that you are using on NERO is only 480x480. That is probably why it will not play on your DVD player.

What is your source file(DVD rip, analog capture, cable). If it is a DVD rip, you can use a tool from doom's site (look in tools section towards the bottom for doom's site) that will pretty much aautomatically rip it down to either SVCD,VCD, or CVD and bring it into compliance.

The audio issue may be an issue as well, but I really don't think that is the problem.